Battling Sin

That's been my biggest problem, I've been battling sin. As long as we think we have to fight it it has the upperhand. In chp2 of The Enemy Within the author makes an analogy of a rhino; who may be big and strong but has no real authority over us. I then saw sin under the analogy of a barking dog behind a fence. It can't touch me, but I still look everytime it barks, and I'm still scared it will get threw the fence (the fence it can't get threw).

Once we can accept sin has no authority (it's just a barking dog) the battle is over. Sin is deceiving us that it has power and not God. Jesus has already won the battle. Ohhh and don't be fooled and think you have to tame the dog, because then your still battling it (he's just fooled you to make you think you have the control). The truth is he will never stop barking, snarling, foaming at the mouth, and also pant for attention; but remember Jesus is the fence and he can't touch you.

So once you stop battling sin, then you have truly embraced what Jesus did for us. Remeber that doesn't mean it stopped barking, you just stopped battling.

If you are ever comfortable w/your status with sin worry, you will never win the battle; because Jesus already did.

I will conclude with what the author of chp 2 concluded w/ "if you don't find yourself ... day and night struggling against sin (hearing the bark) ... you should doubt if you are born of God at all.